This week we learned about presentations. We focused on how to design them and also touched on giving a good presentations. Some of the most important take back for me was that you should stop being going to far. Basically save really in depth information for a handout instead of putting in on the slide in a presentation. I have done this and I think its great advice. Another great piece of advice is to keep the beginner frame of mind on the topic at hand. This will help limit people getting lost on a topic.
I enjoyed that the value of empty space was brought up. I have seen to many professors present material that has way to much going on per slide. The best presentations that I have seen just gave a few key points where were much easier to remember. When giving a presentation in a large room make sure that the people in the back of the room can easily view images and text. Depending on the size of the room this may mean rearranging the slide information.
A storyboard is a great way to organize ideas. From anything from videos to a simple powerpoint presentation a storyboard can really help organize material. As an advertising student I work with storyboard quite a lot for creative production. This can also help, which I believe was not mentioned this week, in laying out how a presentation can be given. Overall I had a basic understanding before this week the aspects of a good presentations, but I still got to learn a few new things. I think that only a hand full of people in the world can give really good presentations. For the rest of us, we should learn as much as we can from them and always continue to become better at presentations.
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